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I dunno, you need rather large amounts of them to significantly prolong life during famine, about 0.5 kg/day/person, and you need to protect them from spoilage and insect/animal predation. That only sounds plausible for a static society, but before domestication, only nomadic societies were likely to obtain regular access to honey and non-fish meat.
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Max 1y ago

No doubt this would be a primitive form of money and society, but I would guess that humans figured out how to store especially honey and tallow for a prolonged time, much sooner than we figured out the nuances of metallurgy

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David A. Harding 1y ago

I'm unaware of any evidence of long term storage in any prehistoric society of large amounts of honey or fat. The quantities needed to significantly extend human life during famine are huge and preservation using prehistoric methods was difficult and unreliable. It's much easier to keep animals alive than to store their fat. It's much easier to have bees guard their own honey against predation than to have humans guard it.